Domestic burglary and robbery saw the largest decline with 1, 747 fewer people who had their homes broken into and 365 fewer personal robberies.

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Since the teenagers' arrest, all the familiar theories have been rehearsed: broken homes, violent films and video games, easy access to firearms, a longing to catch the journalists' attention.

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Each year, 50 residents of Red Hook and the surrounding area perform community-based public service, including repairing broken locks on people's homes and cleaning up graffiti.

ECONOMIST: Dispensing justice

Kids from poor and broken homes, boys especially, need successful role models from the real world.

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She said the homes of workers had been attacked with stones and their windows broken.

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Second homes in the Hamptons are being sold at lower selling prices, and broken up families are having to adjust to living in smaller apartments.

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But Moore seemed to bear the brunt, with some neighborhoods reduced to ruins, with broken cars wrapped around trees and lodged into homes.

WSJ: After Oklahoma Tornadoes, Rescue Efforts Focus on Survivors

Meanwhile, downed power lines, leaking gas lines, broken water pipes and still-blazing fires have blocked the return of thousands of Southern Californians who fled their homes this week ahead of more than 20 wind-whipped wildfires.

CNN: Gov. Schwarzenegger vows to 'hunt down' arsonists

"We're in the disaster business--disasters of nature or broken homes, or trying to survive, " says Robert Rudd, community relations and development secretary for the Salvation Army in California.

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